To complete the turnover, Missouri's Republican incumbent Jim Talent would have to go down and Rhode Island's liberal Republican Lincoln Chafee would have to cross the aisle.

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As the National Assembly holds its first session of the new year later on Monday, the MQM is expected to cross the aisle to the opposition benches.

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And he had an ability to cross the aisle and put together very strange coalitions of conservative Republicans and the most liberal Democrats for causes he believed in.

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Regardless of whether or not that man is Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, I will hope for the best and do what I can to encourage the political delegation from my state to step up, cross the aisle, and work to actually do something meaningful to help the country grow.

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